08/01/2020
Haven’t posted in a while, so just need to catch up. It’s been almost 5 months, we are getting so much produce. Really we over-planted in a panic to make sure we would get by in case the world ended. But thankfully that didn’t happen.
And I cut, raked, baled, and stacked 385 bales of hay during June, so didn’t spend as much time in the garden as usual, but thankfully April took over a lot of the management, and Kelly and Jason did a lot of weeding and harvesting and clean-up.
We just had a Fall Garden planning meeting (very fun, we’ll do that more often) to decide what to put in for the next few months. And now we are collecting seeds and starts and getting ready for round 2! Succession planting will be key, and keeping quantity reasonable. But also looking forward to fun stuff we don’t have yet, like celery, purple carrots, more spinach, Brussels sprouts and leeks. And all our squash, pumpkins, melons, tomatoes, cucumbers, potatoes, and sunflowers should be coming in during fall, and some cauliflower and broccoli real soon. And so much zucchini... too much... anyone want some?
So the peas were bountiful but we didn’t love the snowpeas, but they were better as shelling peas, but I didn’t know there is a limited time while they are sweet and then get starchy. Jason and April cleared the bed this week. We will do a fall planting very soon.
And even though we planted many rounds of lettuce, they all bolted at various times, and had to be pulled, but we left a couple to flower for the bees. Same with spinach, and cilantro, all bolted. So we’ll plant more but trying a less sunny spot that might be better.
I’ve never grown watermelon radishes but they are really huge, and I seeded them way too close together, and didn’t use nematodes, so they are pretty ugly. But I think they have pretty tasty greens, basically they are turnips. So looking forward to a better balanced Fall garden.
